Asus UL50AG-A2 And UL80Vt-A1 Notebooks With $100 Gift Card Deal Offered On Amazo

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Gift card bundle deals seem to be a hot trend again this holiday shopping season. Walmart is offering the Xbox 360 Arcade with a $100 gift card tomorrow. Amazon just launched a gift card deal on three Asus notebook from their UL series.
You get a free $100 Amazon gift card with the purchase of the Asus UL50AG-A2 or Asus UL80Vt-A1. If you buy the Asus UL20A-A1 you get still a $75 Amazon gift card.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Merry Madagascar DVD Exclusively on Sale At Walmart

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Today Walmart announced an exclusive deal to sell the Merry Madagascar DVD. Merry Madagascar is a 30-minute animated Christmas special that premieres on NBC on November 17th.
Walmart will carry the standard Merry Madagascar DVD movie for $5 and a deluxe DVD version with additional content for $8. These DVDs are very nice stocking stuffers.

Walmart stores will also offer new Merry Madagascar licensed pajamas, slippers, socks, throw blankets and other holiday gifts starting this week. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:32:19 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pics of ATI 5970 Dual-GPU video card leak

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Some information and pics of an upcoming video card from ATI have been leaked, it's called the 5970 with dual GPUs on one card. The card in the leaked images has an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector to give it enough juice.

The card is a whopping 13.5-inches long, which means that many cases won’t be able to fit the card inside thanks to its length. Apparently, AMD already forced the site to remove the performance specs listed. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Garmin Unveils New Aera Series GPS Solutions for Car and Aircraft

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Garmin has unveiled a new GPS solution that can go from the car to the airplane. The GPS series is the aera 500, 510, 550, and 560. The devices share many of the same features and the same form factor and only differ in the software included on the devices.

The 510 and the 560 models have access to XM satellite radio. All of the devices have private airport data, terrain and obstacle data and more. The devices are designed to allow pilots to use them once they get to their destination in the car. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:27:53 CST | by Shane McGlaun

$20 eGift Card With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Available On Walmart

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launches on November 10th. Walmart has a great deal offering a $20 eGift card with the purchase of Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2.
Which basically means you pay only $39.82 instead of the $59.82 price for the highly anticipated game for the Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3.
The eGift card can only be used online. More details about the Walmart Bonus eGift card Video game deals are available on Walmart. Read more

Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

MIT Develops Witty Robot Sidekick (For Your Car)

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Finally. Since I was a kid I've longed for a super-smart robot sidekick to be my best friend and come with me on my adventures. MIT's Affective Intelligent Driving Agent isn't quite that awesome, but it's a big step in the right direction. The AIDA is being built as a smart driving assistant that will make people safer and help them to find more efficient routes.

Essentially an adorable little robot that sits on your dashboard and talks to you, the AIDA is being built to recognize human facial expressions and emotional queues. Basically, they're creating a robot that knows to shut up and back off when you start to get angry at it. If some stupid dashboard droid started criticizing MY driving in the middle of agonizing gridlock traffic, I'd be sorely tempted to bludgeon it to death with my laptop bag.

Posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:11:19 CDT | by Robert Evans

TomTom Car Kit Does NOT Work With iPod Touch/iPhone 2G

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Bad news, iPod touch users and owners of a first generation iPhone; the TomTom car kit will not work with your gadgets. AppleInsider has received direct confirmation from TomTom that neither product is compatible with the car kit. Both gadgets can handle the app, but for whatever reason the car kit is only compatible with the iPhone 3G and 3GS. The TomTom car kit offers a better GPS and higher quality audio, in addition to acting as a dock.

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:09 CDT | by Robert Evans

TomTom Car Kit For Apple iPhone On Sale in U.S. Apple Store

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The TomTom Car Kit for Apple iPhone has been selling in Europe since earlier this month. Today the navigation accessory also appeared on the U.S. Apple store.

TomTom Car Kit for Apple iPhone sells for $119.99 online at the Apple Store.
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Posted on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OnStar Ends Its First Carjacking

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OnStar is a pretty neat little service. For a (somewhat steep) installation fee, plus a monthly service charge, you gain remote control of your vehicle and crash assistance in the event of an accident. It's one of those programs that sounds awesome, but isn't quite cheap enough yet to have attained widespread adoption. After this most recent news, though, I think OnStar will probably see a bit of a spike in sales.

On Sunday, October 18, a man with a shotgun carjacked a 2009 Chevy Tahoe, leaving its driver and his passenger stranded. Normally this would be followed by a call to the police and several days of fruitless, car-less waiting while the jacker sold your vehicle to a chop shop and spent the proceeds on crystal meth and prostitutes. Thanks to OnStar though, that's not how this altercation ended. (Engadget)

Posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:54:30 CDT | by Robert Evans

Zhu Zhu Pets Num Nums Hamster, Car and Garage Accessory Review

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Today I am checking out the Zhu Zhu Pets Num Nums hamster and the Car and Garage accessory for their habitat. The hamster is a fun little toy for kids and will make a great holiday gift.

The car and garage accessory were a bit frustrating, but overall the stuff is fun. If your kids are asking for these Zhu Zhu Pets toys, you need to start buying now, they are hard to find and it will only get worse the closer we get to the holidays. Read more

Posted on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:50:35 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series Graphics Cards Get Official

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We already know all there is to know about AMDs new Radeon 5700 series video cards including the 5770 and the 5750. The details and even pictures were leaked last week ahead of the official announcement today.

AMD has gone official with the cards that both fully support DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-monitors from ATI. The video cards deliver over one teraflops of computing power. The GPUs are built on 40nm technology and have up to 800 stream processors. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Asus N51V Notebook Gets Carbon Footprint Certificates

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The World is saved! Asus announced today that the Asus N51V notebook computer is the world's first notebook to receive both Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) and carbon footprint (PAS 2050:2008) certificates.

ASUS is the first Taiwanese IT manufacturer to participate in EPEAT and to have its products registered at the Gold level. It is also the first to participate in EU Flower and have products its awarded the EU Flower. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:44:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung Premium Plus Memory Cards Launched

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Samsung today announced that this month in Taiwan, it is introducing premium Samsung memory cards for sale. In previous years, Samsung manufactured 'white-label' digital memory cards for a variety of leading electronics companies and memory card companies.

Samsung's new premium Plus memory cards, which comply with the Secure Digital class 6 ratings for performance, are available in SD, microSD and Compact Flash (CF) formats with densities of 4-gigabytes (GBs) and 8GBs, with a 16GB density for an SD Plus card. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:47:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Viper SmartStart: Start Your Car With Your iPhone

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People forget their car keys all the damn time, but they rarely misplace their smartphones. When you rely on one device for virtually all of your communication, organization, and Internet browsing needs, you tend to keep pretty good track of it. Directed Electronics is betting on this being the case with their new Viper SmartStart system.

The SmartStart consists of both a free app in the App Store, and actual Viper SmartStart hardware installed in the vehicle itself. Once you've had the system installed, the app will allow you to lock, unlock, start, pre-heat, or pre-cool your vehicle from your iPhone. Users won't even have to be within visual range of the car; with the iPhone app, the SmartStart's range is "virtually unlimited".

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:13:13 CDT | by Robert Evans

SanDisk Ships First 4BPC Memory Cards

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Not every step forward for technology is announced with fanfare, huge product roll-outs, and a gigantic media blitz. Some advances are very quiet, like the shipment of the very first line of memory cards based around the new X4 technology. SanDisk (via Electronista) just started sending out their new line of standard SDHC and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards, which use 4 BPC storage as opposed to the standard 2 or 3 BPC.

BPC stands for "bits per cell". The increase to 4 BPC should allow for smaller 8 GB and 16 GB chips, and will scale to allow for 64 GB and larger capacity SDHC chips in the near future. The coming of 4 BPC technology will also have reprecussions in the world of solid state drives, as SSDs also use multi-level cell storage.

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:54:08 CDT | by Robert Evans

XFX Unveils GeForce GT 220 and 210 Video Cards

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XFX has launched a couple new low-end NVIDIA video cards called the GeForce 210 and GT 220. The lower-end GeForce 210 is a budget offering that is clocked at 589 MHz on the core and has a 64-bit memory bus. The card has 512MB of DDR2 RAM that runs at 800 Mhz. Outputs include VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI.

The GT 220 is available in two versions. The GT-220X-ZNFC has a GPU clock of 625MHz and a memory bus that is 128-bit. The 1GB of RAM is clocked at 800MHz and the card has VGA, HDMI, and DVI-D outputs. Read more

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:33:40 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

TomTom Car Kit For Apple iPhone Now Available Officially In Europe

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The TomTom Car Kit For the iPhone has been listed on the Apple UK store before, but only today TomTom has officially announced the availability of the TomTom Car Kit For iPhone.
The TomTom car kit for iPhone is available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden and Switzerland.

TomTom says in the announcement that the car kit will be available in the US on the TomTom web store and in US Apple online and retail stores in the near future. Read more

Posted on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:53:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dymo Unveils CardScan Mobile

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Dymo has unveiled a cool new app for Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones that is now available on the Windows marketplace for Mobile called Dymo CardScan Mobile. The app allows business users to scan a card into their contacts by simply taking a picture of it with their camera phone.

The app was offered alongside the launch of the new Marketplace for Mobile and promises to instantly transfer contact information from a business card to the correct fields in a contact list of a windows smartphone. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Mercedes Builds Car That Auto-Brakes At Red Lights

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People die or ruin their cars every year due to accidentally rolling through red lights. Mercedes has developed a new concept car that could make one sort of traffic accident a thing of the past. Their new prototype will break at red lights, even if you don't. In the video Gizmodo links to, you can see the actual vehicle in action. So far, it seems to work very well.

This system requires a smart intersection as well as a smart car, however. The light has to be able to communicate with the car to warn it when it's about to turn red. This allows the car to stop itself at the last possible moment, which gives you as much time as possible to break of your own accord. Having something like this in my car would probably be a bit annoying when driving on rural roads with no traffic in sight, but it could be a real life saver in an urban environment.

Posted on Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:37:00 CDT | by Robert Evans

New Car Cam Voyager with LCD Display Is Ideal For Paranoid Drivers

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The new Car Cam Voyager with integrated LCD is apparently the first vehicle camera to let you see exactly what is happening in real-time while you're driving.
This car camera actually has a "cool gadget" design. The camera is on one side and the display on the other.

The car camera provides a live feed on its 2 inch 320 x 240 screen, but it also records up to 48 hours of video on the road with an 32GB microSD card (not included).
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Posted on Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:42:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SanDisk Unveils Line of Memory Cards for Gamers

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SanDisk has unveiled a line of memory cards that it is marketing towards gamers. The products are aimed at users planning to purchase a PSP go or already owning a PSP-2000, PSP-3000, or Nintendo DSi. The cards are really just plain memory cards with higher capacities with labels so gamers know they work with their portable game systems.

The new products include a 16GB M2 card for the PSP go selling for $142.99. SanDisk is also offering a 32GB Memory Stick Pro Duo and Pro-HG Duo memory card for the PSP-2000 and 3000 user. An 8GB SDHC card is also being offered for the Nintendo DSi system as well. Read more

Posted on Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun